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Joe Biden – National Treasure [Darleen Click]

Vice President Joe Biden addressed 87 wealthy Democrats last night attending a fundraiser at the home of Sen. John Kerry in Georgetown. As they dined on grass-fed New York strip steaks and white truffle mashed potatos underneath a outdoor tent, Biden criticized Republicans for being out of touch.

“These guys don’t have a sense of the average folks out there,” Biden said according to the pool report, “They don’t know what it means to be middle class.”

And since Dan Quale and Bush 1 was our super-most favorite administration EVER, this has what to do with Lunch Box Joe pretending he, and his administration AND the people in that crowd, are in touch with the middle class.

You see, the reality of the situation is that Joe, and the administration, and everyone in that crowd knows better than the middle class. The middle class can’t be trusted to invest, or decide it’s medical care, or even deal with their own banks and employers one-on-one. We need “daddy-government” to help us out from cradle to grave.

too many just look at the government as their paternalistic protector.

I tend to favor the maternal analogy myself. Government does so much for you, why don’t you appreciate it more? And you need to stop hanging around with those Austrian economist hoodlums and their English natual law theorist friends because they’ll only get you in trouble and that would break your mother’s heart.

Sexist pigs. Your analysis assumes that men and womyn are different in some fundamental way when you argue about mommy-government vice daddy-government.

“I don’t want to grow up.” When I was a teenager some 35 years ago a statement like that would have got you strange looks from your peers. Now it elecits nods and responses such as, “Me neither.” Our government is doing little more than giving people what they want, without being all judgmental about it. We can note until the cows come home that what they want is neither sustainable nor in their best interests, but it doesn’t matter. They’ve come to look forward to the pronouncements that chocolate rations have been incresed to 20 grams!

After months of eating fast-food burgers almost exclusively at Hardee’s, where the beef is advertised as 100% Angus-with-a-g-thank-you-very-much, today I had one at Burger King where the only way you’re likely to encounter the word “Angus” is if a Scottish immigrant is working behind the counter, I definitely noticed a difference in taste.

Can’t say whether either cow is grass-fed, grain-fed, or nourished intravenously, but I had been skeptical of claims that Angus beef tastes noticeably better. I was wrong. It does.

He meant “average folks” in the evolutionarily useful sense of the term.

He doesn’t care what the #@#$ing bourgeoisie definition that exists only to keep people down is.

Biden threw away his materialist empirical lens because it impeded his perception of the real historiographic dialectic at play. Material reality must be subordinated to party control of the dissemination of information so it cannot mislead the proletariat.

McGehee, I’ll go out on a limb and say most beef cows are grass fed, in that they are raised in pastures. What you feed them definitely will affect favor though, like in feed lots where they’re fed hay, and maybe cornmeal or something. Naturally that’s more expensive, and personally I see it as only a difference in flavor(and a subtle one), not necessarily better or worse. I think the cut and preparation has way more to do with how good it is.

Burger King is, well, not very good. Carl’s Jr makes a pretty good burger. Even at that, I’ve noticed marked differences of taste between the same burger at the same chain but different locations.

I miss Carl’s Jr., and when I learned Hardee’s was owned by the same parent corp I had very high hopes. It’s taken a while but I now trust at least a couple of Hardee’s locations to serve my burger the way I want it. I just wish they hadn’t discontinued the Carl’s Jr.-style western-bacon.

It’s a little startling to someone whose first experience of Hardee’s in the early ’90s closely preceded with a very bad gastrointestinal bout, to find that they’re now better than BK. That may be why I’m leery of the hundreds of other Hardee’s locations I could visit in the area.

Best beef I’ve ever had came from Corriente steers that had been “exercised” by cowboys chasing them around a rodeo arena with ropes. When they learned to dodge the rope and became unusable as rodeo stock they were put in a feed lot and grain-fattened for a couple of months. Even after the fattening they were very lean and the meat was noticably tough, but extremely flavorful. I suspect that the exercise improved the taste at the expense of tenderness.

Five guys has really good fries. The Burgers are just burgers though. Decent but they don’t drive me wild. I dunno. Same with Culver’s and a local place obviously intended to beat Five Guys to the punch called Mighty Fine.

Hat Creek is okay. Fudruckers is GONE. Burger Tex is okay.

I like Short Stop’s burgers best. My friends all prefer Hut’s or some other ‘local flavor’ place like the night Hawk Frisco shop, Top Notch Hamburgers, Dan’s. Fran’s, Nau’s drugstore on Enfield Rd, Waterloo Icehouse, Hangtown grill, Rocket Burger, EZ’s, Sholz’s Biergarten, or Dirty Martin’s Kumback. Shady Grove is decent. I’m not sure if we still have a Holiday House in town or not but if we do they were okay. Gaylord’s was pretty good but they are gone now. Backyard Burgers is gone. Katz’s is gone. (They Klosed after all). Players is good. Steak and Shake is alright if you order the sourdough melts. PJ Terry’s, Green Mesquite, and Hilbert’s are all okay. Red Robin was a bit disappointing. I tried Elevation Burgers and they were a bit sad and expensive too.

I was brought up in the ‘greasy salty’ 70’s though and I know what I like. And it’s Short Stop which tastes the way that WhataBurger used to back in the day, only with better bread. Fajita Flats was good but they’ve been gone since 1988 so me even bringing that up is just BITCHING. I might as well whine about Blue Nehi soda while I’m at it.

White truffle mashed potatoes? Not only are they racist, but probably made with truffle oil which is one of the most disgusting substances on the planet, tastes nothing like truffles and is sold in over-priced tiny bottles to suckers who think they’re being gourmands.

Just finished a book by Giorgio Locatelli that had a great description of truffles’ flavor. Don’t remember it verbatim but it was something like “sweaty human”.

(Not a bad book, btw. Sort of a cook book but also takes a great deal of time just talking about ingredients, concepts, and techniques. If you’re a novice Italian cook — like me — it’s pretty worthwhile just for all the remedial explanations.)

Nope. I don’t care for truffles much and they are too expensive for my budget. Cook’s Illustrated did a breakdown of different fancy-pants ingredients and what they were made from and how they reacted to heat, freezing, &c.

I don’t care for burgers. I never have and they have always upset my stomach. My little brother on the other hand, was like Wimpy when he was a kid. It was family joke that no matter where we went to eat as a family, he would order a hamburger and then pronounce it “the best hamburger I ever ate”.

I dig In-N-Out burgers and it’s a mandatory stop for me every time I’m in Cali. But the best burgers I can recall were at Erik Erickssen’s in Ventura, which was a barefoot, almost-a-dive beach, greasy, delicious burger place back when I lived there. It seems it’s gone frou frou.

The one burger on the menu is $13 and there’s a $32 steak. I suspect the enormous bucket with beer cans on ice is gone.

The caption that Adam added to one of the Barcelona pics, “Pretty drunk”. Is this the part where I’m supposed to pay for your condoms, Adam? You know, because traveling between L.A., D.C., and New York, and vacationing in Barcelona, Italy, etc., is pretty darned expensive. I get it. Did you piss off your uber-wealthy parents to get cut off from your trust fund? You and Sandra must need some government subsidies. Idea: mock hearing. Brilliant!

My wife and I discovered Culver’s a couple summers ago on our trip to the Black Hills; the closest to us, alas, is in <strident chord> Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

We have Five Guys hereabouts too, but it’s not a place I dare go by myself because if my wife finds out I went without her there’ll be hell to pay. Last year we took her mother to the one near her in Chattanooga and now she’s hooked too. Of course, she’d been accustomed to getting her burgers at BK…

Speaking of that Black Hills trip, that’s also the last time we had a chance to eat at Fuddrucker’s, at the mall in Rapid City. When we moved to Georgia in 1999 one of our first dinners was at a Fuddrucker’s in Peachtree City that is now long gone.

We also like Red Robin, but they took the chili cheeseburger off the menu and frankly I have trouble thinking of a reason to eat there anymore. I mean, aside from the free refills on their french fries.

This is going in a different direction but there is that class of dude who makes your gaydar go into the red but then he’s… straight? And then Sandra? Sorta the same thing but with lady parts.

If you’re super-liberal and living in gay-friendly land, why the need for these dual beard relationships? (Coming from rural Wisco, I actually do recognize the utility of pretending. Gayest guy in the world used to make out with a slut by my locker and I never rolled my eyes or told one joke because I could understand it. Why not just make out with some random slag once in awhile to not get teased/bullied for four years?)

But, in their world? Just be gay. Sure, there’s less of a reproductive health angle to exploit then but at least you don’t need to explain to all your friends how you dig chicks but are dating a guy who digs guys. How does that conversation go?

On the food side, I’m pretty meh on all of them (Five Guys? That’s a decent side of fries.) but the Waffle House. Every time I’m south of Illinois I stop in a couple times and get three or four separate plates. If this was available all the time, I would weigh about 310.

My favorite sort of eating that way was out in Oklahoma where this one joint always had the option of putting sausage gravy on top of everything on the plate. Any meal. Anything. Burger and fries? Yep. Omelette and toast? Yep. Pie? Probably, never tried it.

Kinda like the drinking man’s breakfast at any time of the day. Which, as a drinking man, I appreciated that flexibility. Should I get hammered in the middle of the day? Well, I do know a place to go for lunch then.

You know what really sux about not having Waffle House in Charleston? Rolling in after 7 hours on the road at 10:15 at night and driving around for 25 minutes looking for somewhere to eat that doesn’t have a drive thru window IYKWIM. Shoney’s – Closed. IHOP – Closed. Bob Evans – Closed. Penn Station – Closed. And nary a greasy spoon in sight.

Did that last Thursday and finally ended up at Applebee’s for 1/2 price appetizers and drinks… which was fortuitous, but seriously – a state capitol on an interstate highway without a decent 24 hour stop and slop?

JD, I was dieting til the daughter came home. The Varsity is not where you go for low carb high protein dietary fare. Or Waffle House. Just try ordering a ham and cheese omelet without your mouth taking over and adding an order of hash browns scattered, smothered and covered. Can’t be done!

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